plate-carrier

English

Noun

plate-carrier (plural plate-carriers)

  1. A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:
      The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.
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